#modern life

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. ↗

— John Buchan

#comfortable #compact #conspiracy #folk #keep

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#controlling #failed #gained #influence #life

I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#come #cook #even #ever #food

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. ↗

— Robert Casey

#feature #however #life #might #modern

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#career #commodity #couples #different #finding

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard! ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#comforts #days #difficult #edge #hard

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#book #funny #funny way #intense #less

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#get #life #longer #men #modern

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#claim #culture #deepest #derive #existence

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#actively #advance #behind #body #christianity